I've been finding a lot of planets with lots of morale buildings in my current game also, my first 1.11 game. I'm finding it with the Arceans though which have apparently taken an influence approach this game, they got the restaurant of eternity and the highest influence and have been culture flipping Drengin planets. They aren't neglecting military too much since they are rated 2nd in that, but I've rarely found more than a couple factories on their planets, though I'm not yet up to their core systems.
| Sometimes it colonizes a class 4 with a class 18 next to it. |
Yeah I've seen them take planets of lower PQ in a system, but they pretty much never upgrade sensors so they probably just didn't see it and grabbed the 1st habitable planet they found.